Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Burhanuddin Rabbani

برهان‌الدین ربانی

Afghanistan

1940 – 2011 (71 years old)

President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 2001, political leader of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban, and head of the Afghan High Peace Council.

Kabul, Afghanistan

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Princess Lalla Aïcha

الأميرة للا عائشة

Morocco

1930 – 2011 (81 years old)

Eldest sister of King Hassan II who delivered the historic unveiled speech in Tangier in 1947 championing girls' education, later serving as Morocco's first female ambassador to London and Rome.

Rabat, Morocco

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Mark Hatfield

Mark Odom Hatfield

United States

1922 – 2011 (89 years old)

Prominent Oregon statesman who served two terms as governor and thirty years in the U.S. Senate, renowned for his principled Christian pacifism and opposition to the Vietnam War.

Portland, United States

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Otto von Habsburg

Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg-Lothringen

Austria

1912 – 2011 (98 years old)

The last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary who renounced his claim to the imperial throne, fiercely opposed Hitler, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for two decades, co-organizing the 1989 Pan-European Picnic.

Vienna, Austria

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Frederick Chiluba

Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba

Zambia

1943 – 2011 (68 years old)

Second President of Zambia who led the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) to victory in 1991, peacefully ending Kenneth Kaunda's 27-year one-party rule.

Lusaka, Zambia

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Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne Ferraro

United States

1935 – 2011 (75 years old)

Pioneering American politician and attorney who shattered political ceilings in 1984 as the first woman nominated for Vice President on a major American party presidential ticket.

Middle Village, United States

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Carlos Andrés Pérez

Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez

Venezuela

1922 – 2010 (88 years old)

Two-time President of Venezuela (1974–1979 and 1989–1993) who nationalized the Venezuelan petroleum industry and survived two 1992 coup attempts led by Hugo Chávez.

Caracas, Venezuela

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Viktor Chernomyrdin

Виктор Степанович Черномырдин

Russia

1938 – 2010 (72 years old)

Russian statesman who served as Prime Minister under Boris Yeltsin from 1992 to 1998, founded Gazprom, and mediated the end of the 1999 Kosovo War.

Moscow, Russia

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Ted Sorensen

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen

United States

1928 – 2010 (82 years old)

American attorney and special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, celebrated as JFK's 'intellectual blood bank' who helped craft his historic Inaugural Address and 1962 Moon speech.

New York City, United States

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Néstor Kirchner

Néstor Carlos Kirchner

Argentina

1950 – 2010 (60 years old)

President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 who led the nation's economic recovery from its catastrophic 2001 default and re-opened trials against military junta human rights abusers.

Río Gallegos, Argentina

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Gennady Yanayev

Геннадий Иванович Янаев

Russia

1937 – 2010 (73 years old)

Soviet political figure who served as the first and only Vice President of the Soviet Union and nominal head of the State Emergency Committee during the fateful August 1991 Coup.

Moscow, Russia

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José Antonio Labordeta

José Antonio Labordeta Subías

Spain

1935 – 2010 (75 years old)

Aragonese singer-songwriter, writer, and politician whose anthemic Canto a la libertad became an informal national hymn of Spanish democratic freedom and regional dignity.

Zaragoza, Spain

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Guido de Marco

Guido de Marco

Malta

1931 – 2010 (79 years old)

Sixth President of Malta who formally submitted Malta's application to join the European Union and served as President of the 45th United Nations General Assembly.

Paola, Malta

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Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd

United States

1917 – 2010 (92 years old)

Longest-serving United States Senator in American history, representing West Virginia for over 51 years, renowned as a staunch defender of Senate traditions and constitutional checks.

Arlington, United States

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Dr. Mohamed Seghir Nekkache

الدكتور محمد الصغير نقاش

Algeria

1918 – 2010 (92 years old)

Visionary military physician who created and structured the health and medical services of the ALN in the maquis and served as independent Algeria's first Minister of Health.

Algiers, Algeria

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Goh Keng Swee

吳慶瑞

Straits Settlements

1918 – 2010 (91 years old)

Deputy Prime Minister and mastermind of Singapore's economic miracle who created the Jurong Industrial Estate, the Singapore Armed Forces, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Singapore, Singapore

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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Nigeria

1951 – 2010 (58 years old)

President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010, remembered for his exceptional personal integrity, constitutional adherence, and brokering the historic Niger Delta amnesty peace agreement.

Katsina, Nigeria

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Ryszard Kaczorowski

Ryszard Kaczorowski

Poland

1919 – 2010 (90 years old)

The sixth and final President of the Polish government-in-exile, who in 1990 formally handed over the pre-war presidential insignias to freely elected President Lech Wałęsa.

Warsaw, Poland

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